The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-28
Now for u R0using Welcome to Our
Visitors from ireland!


We are glnd to learn that measures have
been taken in this city to give rousng well
y come to Mr.. ARTHUR O'CoNNoR and Sir
( THOMAS GRATTAN EsMoNDE, the accredited
delegates Of the Irish Parliamentary party,
and to MIR. MICHAEL DAvTrT, than whom
.tbere Ia no worthier representative of Ire
land. They are coming here to tell American
well-wishers that, although Irishmen have
never more sOrey needed their sympathy
and bounty, 1t is because they stand exposed
4 to the last desperate assault Of Tory malig-
nifty, which, II baflled now In the attempt to
stamp out Of existence the National League,
must confess itself impotent to bar the early
triumph Of Mr.. GLADSTONE and home rule.
~ will be for Americans to recognize and at
test by generous deeds GA well as words that
the season Of oppression and distress through
which Ireland Is passing is but the dark and
short hour that precedes splendid dawn.
y 1t was the unstinted aid forthcoming from
this country that foiled the effort Of former
British Government to crush the Land
League, and transformed 1t into the far
stronger organization with which the Tories
have to deal 1t Ia incredible that Irish
Americans should show themselves less zeal
GUS and helpful now, when they have every
thing to hope for, than they were In 1882,
when the Parnellites In Parliament numbered
less than forty, and We're opposed with equal
bitterness by both Of the old parties In Great
Britain. No, this would be poor time for
Irish-Americans to fall out Of the home
rule ranks. when Scotchmen and Welshmen
and Englishmen themselves have fallen In.
No Irish patriot will throw up the sponge In
\ the last round OF fight with an antagonist
90 blinded with fear and desperation that his
blows are wild.
n 1t was largely in this city. and within
circuit OF some fifty miles fiom the City Hall
that the battle for the Land League was
I fought and won. The Land and Labor
4 League in its hour of tribulation Is ten times
! more worthy OF our sympathy and succor,
for 1t has accomplished more, and 1t wears
the halo Of coming triumph on its brow. 1t
lie not possible that any hand which bore the
burden and the heat OF the day will now drop
nerveless from the plough, when the guerdon
Of Its labor is all but won. We cannot think
there Is friend OF Ireland among US who,
when the lieutenants OF Mr.. PARSELL call
the roll, will not shout back: Here" and
z" ReadyP' There Ii not local branch OF tho
4SatiOhoi A<CuS OuC VII uubWCI W luo Cdll
there is not q man, who can look back with
pride upon the work done blythe Parliament
airy Fund Committee, but who will now
pledge himself to still more energetic
effort. And In this final uprising of Ameri-
can freemen ON behalf Of brothers fighting
for their rights The SUN will stand, where 1t
has always stood, In the forefront of the
battle.
rs 1t is an urgent prayer for help that Messrs.
EsMoNDE and O'CoNNoR will bear to us from
ireland, and not a moment should be lost by
those who mean 1t shall be answered. We
know that the League Is preparing to act
with vigor. and that the Parliamentary fund
is to be lavishly replenished. But in
every ward. In every election district
Of this city. In every town and ev-
cry hamlet reached by our daily press,
some'active and influential man can. by per-
sonnlly undertaking the collection of SUBJ
scriDtions. render in this hour Of trial an
inestimable service to the Irish cause-a SER
vice which we, on our part, will with pride
and happiness record In our columns.
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